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Friday, 30 March 2012

Good morning dear friends. I hope you have all had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend. Today is the final day of my week off from work so I’m taking my mother out for some lunch and a look around the shops, although she is suffering with her arthritis in her knee at the moment so we’ll probably be having lots of coffee breaks in between (but I’m not complaining as it will be more time to chat and people watch lol!)

I’m here this morning with my card for the new challenge over at winter wonderland challenge. This week the lovely Marianne has set the theme and she has chosen “it takes two” so she would like to see 2 people/snowmen etc in one image – fairly simple I thought until I couldn’t find any image I had with only two characters! I had lots with 1 and equally lots with 3 but none with 2 – typical! So after a quick nip to Pollycraft and I found a super cute image to use and here is my card:

As I said the image is from pollycraft and is called ‘snow buds’ and I coloured it with promarkers and flex markers. The papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘be merry’ paper pad and the kraft card is from dies to die for. I punched the snowflakes with a MS punch and added cute little heart buttons from my stash.

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and one lucky winner will receive a £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Good morning dear friends. I’m back in the land of the living at long last!! I am really sorry for my long absence but I haven’t been feeling very good over the last 2 weeks or so – nothing serious, just a virus I think, but I felt really rough. In fact I didn’t actually craft at all during that time so I must have been ill. I even bought a card for my in-laws anniversary – awful I know!! Anyway hopefully things will slowly get back to “normal” now, although I think my mojo has taken the break badly and is refusing to come back to normal duties lol!

Enough of my waffling! I’m here to share my card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge and this week the lovely Gemma has set the theme and she has chosen “Easter” which I’m sure will prove very popular! Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from DigiStamp Boutique called “Easter Dan” and coloured him with promarkers. At the moment this image is on offer so why not pop over to the shop and grab him at a very special price of just £1.00 (but only until end of March) – he will come in so useful for all your Easter creations. The lovely papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘dwell’ paper pad and the kraft card is from dies to die for. I created my little Easter egg embellishments by die-cutting the smallest oval nestie and drawing some lines with a Letraset fine liner pen and then colouring with promarkers – quite effective I think!

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have DigiStamp Boutique and Sally-Ann is offering one lucky winner 6 digi images of their choice – and as you can see her images are so adorable you will be spoilt for choice!

Our second sponsor is Joanna Sheen and she is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 gift voucher to spend in her online store. She has lots of gorgeous crafty goodies plus free shipping on all orders!

The rest of the design team have made gorgeous creations as always so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

Friday, 16 March 2012

Happy Friday everyone. I hope you’ve all had a great week and are now looking forward to the weekend. Here in Wales everyone is hyper about the Six Nations Rugby match tomorrow against France when we are in with a chance of winning the Grand Slam (*whispers* I’m not a big rugby fan but will be keeping one eye on the TV just to see what happens). I’m sure Cardiff will be buzzing with all the fans from both nations supporting their teams.

I’m here this evening with a catch up post for this week’s charisma cardz challenge. This week it’s my turn to set the theme and I have chosen “alter it”, so I would like to see something altered to look different from it’s original state – whatever you do is up to you. I have very little time to create my project so I decided to alter a plain white gift bag (I know I’ve done this before but they are really very useful lol!). Here is my altered project:

and here is a photo of the bag before I altered it:

I used another new image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Easter Rosie’, which is currently one of the offers of the month and available at the special prize of just £1.00. I also used the little egg images which come in the ‘Easter collection 2’ which again is available at a special prize at the moment. Why not pop over to the DSB shop and grab them while you can! I coloured the images with promarkers and the pretty papers are from the first edition ‘hideaway’ paper pad, it’s hard to tell but they are lovely and glittery. I did add a sentiment and a few more mini eggs on the back of my bag but forgot to take a picture d’oh!

Our sponsor this week is All That Scraps and one lucky winner will receive this amazing prize:

The design team have done an amazing job once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I hope you will be able to join in with my challenge this week. Your entry doesn’t have to be anything too complicated (just look at my project) the main thing is to have fun! I look forward to seeing what you create. I would like to welcome my newest followers – Vicki and Tonya *waves hello*. Thanks for joining me ladies and I hope you will visit me often. I’m running late with my post for the winter wonderland challenge but hopefully I’ll get around to posting it tomorrow. Have a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for stopping by.

Thursday, 15 March 2012

Hello again dear friends. I’m sorry I’m behind the times with my posts again this week, there just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day at the moment. Anyway enough waffling from me and let’s get on with showing you my card. The challenge this week over at passion for promarkers challenge has been set by Gro and she has chosen “yellow and pearls” and here is my card:

I have used a brand new and gorgeous image from DigiStamp Boutique from the “Rosie collection 1” which is one of the offers of the month for March and the set contains 3 super cute images for the amazing prize of just £2.25!! I coloured the image with promarkers and the papers are from the dovecraft ‘back to basics’ paper pack. The kraft card is from dies to die for and the pearls are from the hobby house. I kept the layout really simple as I wanted the image to stand out and I have to say I really love this card!

Our sponsor this week is crafts and me and one lucky winner will receive 3 digi images of their choice.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing your gorgeous creations. I would like to welcome my newest followers – Carol and Lisa *waves hello*, thanks for joining my little bit of blogland ladies and I hope you will visit me often. I’ll be back tomorrow with my DT card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge (but it will be after work I’m afraid lol!). Until then have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Monday, 12 March 2012

Hello again friends, I’m back as promised to share my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge. This week the lovely Louise has set the theme and she has chosen “going dotty”, so a nice simple theme for you. As long as we can see some dots you’re fine lol! Here is my card:

The DT were fortunate to be given an image from our sponsor this week and I have used “Murray” from Saturated Canary and coloured her with a mixture of promarkers and flex markers. I’m sorry the pics are so dark but this was the best I could get as I took them in the wee early hours!! I used papers from two different pads – the text paper is from echo park ‘victoria gardens’ paper pad and the dotty paper is my mind’s eye ‘dwell’ paper pad. I also added some buttons which I thought looked like ‘dots’ of colour.

Good morning dear friends. I hope you had a great weekend, the weather here was really pleasant and I even dried some washing on the line (sad I know to be excited about that lol!) I cannot believe that my week off work went so fast and I’m back in work again today – I really need to win the lottery I think haha!

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s Stamp with Fun challenge and this week we have a lovely sketch to use designed by Andrea-Emmi41. It has nice clean lines and layers which is my favourite type of sketch. Here is my card:

I rotated the sketch as it worked better with my image that way. I was asked by a friend at work to make a baby congrats card for a grandmother so I used a super cute image by Mo Manning called ‘baby and bunny’ and coloured it with promarkers and flex markers. The papers are from the docrafts forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax and the kraft card is from dies to die for.

We have a prize up for grabs this week which is kindly offered by Tina and one lucky winner will receive this stamp:

The design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create. I will be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge but until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

As the title says you know I’m not in work because I’m actually posting cards lol! I wanted to share a card I actually made when I was GDT over at the Sweet Stampin’ challenge but didn’t get around to posting at the time! I made a circle card for a change and used a gorgeous image from Saturated Canary called “Whispy”. Here is my card:

Isn’t this image just adorable. I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers and cut her out. The pretty dotty paper has been in my stash for years – I think it was in a super duper 12x12 pad that I got from QVC when I first started crafting!! To make the card base I used a extra large scallop circle die from go-kreate. The doily is from Joanna Sheen and the stunning gingham ribbon is from fantastic ribbons.

I hope you’re all having a great day so far. The weather here has been "mixed” shall we say, ranging from torrential rain to bright sunshine and then gale force winds but at least it’s sunny for the time being. I may be back later with another card – I know I’m going from one extreme to the other but I have to make the most of the time to catch up on some cards I haven’t had chance to share with you. Until then have a brilliant day and thanks so much for stopping by. I really appreciate your lovely comments.

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Hello again dear friends. I’m back with a very late DT card for charisma cardz challenge (I should have posted it last Thursday – what am I like – I’m getting worse I think lol!). The theme is “masking” and if you’re not sure how to achieve this technique here is a link to a simple tutorial by Beate Johns on SCS, although if I can do it I think most people can haha!. I decided to use two older stamps from sugar nellie from the gorjuss girls range, which are still firm favourites of mine. Here is my card:

The images I used are ‘just a girl’ and ‘sitting’ and I coloured them with promarkers and flex markers, The gorgeous papers are first edition from the ‘hideaway’ paper pad and I coloured the doily with a cats eye chalk ink pad to match my papers. I added a memory box flourish and some lollipop flowers and I was done. I really like the sunshine-y feel to this card, especially as they are not colours I would normally use.

Our sponsors this week are Simon Says stamp who are offering a $20.00 voucher to spend in their online store and Pink Cat Studio who are offering a prize of 5 digi images.

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards as always (and Jenni and myself used the same images on our cards lol!). Please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge, although you’ll have to be quick as it ends in just over a day!! I cannot wait to see what you create. I would like to welcome my newest follower Isa – *waves hello* who left me lovely comments this morning – much appreciated hun and I hope you’ll pop by often. I may be back later with another card so until then have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Good morning dear friends. I’m sorry for the long absence between posts, I wasn’t feeling 100% last week and had a really bad headache all week. Fortunately I’m feeling better this week (so far) but that could have something to do with the fact that I have a week off work *woohoo*.

However I’m still dis-organised and have had to combine two of my DT cards – stamp with fun challenge this week is “pink & green” and the new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge (which I have chosen) is “for mum/female relative”. I thought I would give you a head start in making your mother’s day cards as it’s only 12 days away!! However I’m also aware that some of you sadly don’t have a mother to celebrate with so will accept cards for any female relative. Here is my card:

I did have every intention of making a mother’s day card but when my auntie asked me to make her a 2nd birthday card for her great grand-daughter I used this card instead as time was against me (as usual)! The image is from DigiStamp Boutique and is from the ‘Fairy Hattie collection’. I coloured her with promarkers and added stickles to her wings. The papers are do crafts from the gorgeous forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax and the plain card is SU pink pirouette. I used a Marianne die for the rolled roses and a die-namics die for the number 2.

Our sponsor this week is the lovely Emma from Crafty Emma’s store and she is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher (excl. p&p) to spend in her online store.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I hope you can join in with my challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create. I would like to welcome my newest follower Kelly Smith *waves hello* – I hope you enjoy visiting my blog and will pop by often. I will hopefully be back later with another card but until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Monday, 5 March 2012

Good morning dear friends. There is no card from me for this week at cupcake craft challenge as it’s the turn of Team B to share their gorgeous creations. However I thought I’d let you know that the lovely Donna has chosen a colour theme of “yellow & red” which is such a pretty colour scheme and perfect as we go into early spring.

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and one lucky winner will receive a $20.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

Team B have created gorgeous cards for your inspiration so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us each week.

Even though I’ve not made a card this week I will still be commenting as normal and I cannot wait to see what you create using Donna’s colour scheme. I’ll be back later with my card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge, I’m running a little late lol!

About Me

I am a 50 year old mum of two boys aged 23 & 21. I have been married to my wonderful husband for 24 years and work part-time at my local hospital. We have recently lost our cat Daisy but still have our super cute Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Reggie!